CCL.A vs. CAS, RPI.UN, WPK, MRE, CTC, ZZZ, PBL, GOOS, TCL.A, and ACQ
Should you be buying CCL Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CCL Industries include Cascades (CAS), Richards Packaging Income Fund (RPI.UN), Winpak (WPK), Martinrea International (MRE), Canadian Tire (CTC), Sleep Country Canada (ZZZ), Pollard Banknote (PBL), Canada Goose (GOOS), Transcontinental (TCL.A), and AutoCanada (ACQ). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Cascades (TSE:CAS) and CCL Industries (TSE:CCL.A) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, dividends and risk.
CCL Industries has a net margin of 7.97% compared to CCL Industries' net margin of -1.64%. Cascades' return on equity of 11.93% beat CCL Industries' return on equity.
Cascades has a beta of 0.06, suggesting that its share price is 94% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CCL Industries has a beta of 0.55, suggesting that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Cascades presently has a consensus price target of C$11.67, suggesting a potential upside of 26.95%. Given CCL Industries' higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Cascades is more favorable than CCL Industries.
CCL Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Cascades. Cascades is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CCL Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cascades pays an annual dividend of C$0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. CCL Industries pays an annual dividend of C$1.15 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Cascades pays out -63.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CCL Industries pays out 39.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Cascades is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Cascades had 20 more articles in the media than CCL Industries. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Cascades and 1 mentions for CCL Industries. Cascades' average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat CCL Industries' score of -0.04 indicating that CCL Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
31.0% of Cascades shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.5% of CCL Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.4% of Cascades shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 95.4% of CCL Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Cascades received 372 more outperform votes than CCL Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.07% of users gave CCL Industries an outperform vote while only 64.18% of users gave Cascades an outperform vote.
Summary
CCL Industries beats Cascades on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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